2024

Mtl trading up for demidov after passion on michkov would be such a ridiculous thing. ( in my opinion)

But hughes has been a very short sighted GMs when in comes to drafting, so you never know!

not saying im against it, would judt be so weird.

I don't really see why Anaheim or Pittsburgh do their respective trades

I think for Michkov it came down to a personality thing. Some footage came out post draft that Habs fans speculate was discussing Michkov, so there were scouts in the room rooting for him. But Hughes has been trying to build an amazing culture in Montreal, to the point that he would say no to drafting a prospect based on that condition. If Demidov doesn't have the same issues I can see Montreal considering it if he's available when they pick.

In what way has Hughes been short sighted in his drafting? Genuine question as I don't know what pick you are referring to.

i guess if its an attitude thing it can make sense. Michkov in my book is skill wise better than any prospect in this draft. But maybe he really likes demidov, but michkov could be a franchise winger.

Short sigthed means thats he is mostly adressing immediate needs when drafting. Not a bad things in itself, but thats sort of what he did in the past 2 draft and his interviews sort of show it.

He drafted slaf to adress size in a heavy dman draft year. Drafted a Rd in a heavy foward year and this year will probably draft a foward while the best prospect available will probably be dman.

im not bashing, i really hope all those moves pays off!

I think Demidov will gonna be way better than Michkov, especially because Demidov didn't really have right now somes reports that he haved somes attitude problems.

attitude is overblown. Kucherov has attitude problem and is one of the best in the league.

Michkov is twice the player demidov is.

Kucherov didn't have any attitude problem, he is a leader in the locker room and with his teamates. He is just don't courteous in somes specifics situations (ex : the All-Star Games, bashing Habs fans for no reason, etc.).

And just look the stats of Demidov in the MHL and Michkov stats in the MHL.

michkov was playing pro hockey in his draft year (vhl and khl) while demidov is still in the minors. (mhl)

thats like comparing ohl stats with nhl or ahl

Okay well, none of those trades are happening... but I kinda want to ignore that because you sent the Blues Dickinson.

Calling the man that drafted Slafkovsky and Hutson in his first ever draft, "short sighted" is... interesting to say the least, even Reinbacher is the opposite of a shortsighted move, a shortsighted move would be drafting someone for position and rush them up this year, whether you agree with the pick or not, the goal of the Reinbacher pick was to swing for something that every team wants but not many have, a huge top pairing right shot defencemen who can shut down NHL rushes and transition the puck out of the zone.

An example of what they want out of Reinbacher is something like Brock Faber, Faber's best ability is to get the puck off the back wall efficiently for an quick zone exit and rush attack, putting the other team on the backfoot. Turning defence into offence, the way they both go about it is similar, so it makes sense that MTL will try to develop Reinbacher like him.

Slaf was rushes in the nhl for sure.

Every teams wants their players to turn into star like faber so im not sure what you are getting at beside stating the obvious.

I explained in a later post what i meant by shortsighted. (drafting for needs when there could be better available players, the picks he used to trade for dach and newhook)

Shortsighted might not be bad, so dont take it in a harmful way, he chose a strategy and we'll see what it turns out into in a few years.